Creative Introduces High Definition Multi-Environment Audio Processor

Creative Technology announced its next-generation Audigy audio processor and EAX Advanced HD, two core elements of Creative's future audio developments. The new Audigy processor boasts four times the effects processing power of Creative Technology's EMU10K1 processor, which powers the Sound Blaster Live brand of PC audio cards. The Audigy processor features a 32-bit Multi-Effects Engine, which accelerates Creative's new EAX Advanced HD software by providing users with multiple audio environments and the ability to transition and pan back and forth between them. It offers environment reflections for better localization of sound reflection, and environment filtering that uses high-pass audio filters to generate sound from both indoor and outdoor environments. For game developers, the EAX Advanced HD game audio library provides set of useful tools with support for Microsoft's Direct Sound API, the OpenAL API, Dolby Digital 5.1 mixing API and EAGLE 3.0 Graphical Librarian Editor.